Daily briefing
Construction Skills Today briefing: Wednesday 11 November 2026
Five stories from the last 24 hours, one event or deadline today and two dates for the week ahead.
Stories from the last 24 hours
Team Derby names five projects for £10m, with three aimed at skills and training
Technical education for 16 to 18-year-olds, a city centre Skills Hub and a craft academy at QUAD are among five projects proposed to share £10m of government funding through the Team Derby partnership.
Stowmarket High School students lay blockwork as £10m expansion reaches watertight stage
Barnes Construction and Concertus marked the topping out of a new two-storey teaching block in Suffolk with students who have followed the build from footings to roof and helped with external blockwork.
Lindum and Melfort build polytunnel and accessible path at Kirkby-in-Ashfield veterans' allotment
The contractor and its groundworks partner carried out the work as a SCAPE Community Legacy contribution while building Ashfield District Council's 3,500m² Automated Distribution and Manufacturing Centre nearby.
Sizewell C funds new library building at Leiston Primary School
Pupils at the Suffolk school are using a dedicated reading building paid for by the nuclear project, replacing a library lost when classrooms were expanded to meet rising demand.
NOCN Group's Carl Hassell takes founding seat on Construction Growth Coalition board
The awarding body's chief operating officer is one of nine founder members of the new industry group, which is co-chaired by the chief executives of the CIOB and the CPA.
Today
Tomorrow's Engineers Week
Continues.
This week
SkillBuild National Final
Starts on Wednesday 18 November.
WorldSkills UK National Finals
Starts on Wednesday 18 November.
About this briefing
Published on weekday mornings. Every item comes from a story Construction Skills Today has already published and checked against its sources, from dates organisers have published, or from our data trackers. See the events and awards calendar, or get the week's stories by email with the weekly newsletter.